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                               The Afro-Brazilian slave trade           

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                               The Afro-Brazilian slave trade           

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An estimated 12 million Africans were shipped across the Atlantic to North and South America. About 4.9 million of those African slaves were brought in to Brazil. Portugal, one of the most powerful European countries, played a major role in the Atlantic slave trade, especially the Afro-Brazilian slave trade movement.

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How were the slaves being captured to be brought to Brazil?

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How were the slaves being captured to be brought to Brazil?

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initially European traders would conduct raids along the coast to collect African slaves.The raids were time consuming and difficult. As a result, Europeans entered into agreements with Africans. The Europeans would trade guns and other good in exchange for African slaves from other tribes. For coastal tribe Africans that were trying to protect their own people, owning guns would give them a big advantage and more power over other tribes. As a result, these tribes were able to grow and overpower other tribes and improve their quality of life. The enslaved Africans who were captured in battles and kidnapped were then put on a ship and sent to Brazil.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIT5AYdEQVw

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What was the purpose of the African slaves being shipped to Brazil?

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What was the purpose of the African slaves being shipped to Brazil?

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During the Age of Discovery Portugal was a leader in over seas exploration and commercial trading. During this era, Brazil and Angola were discovered and colonized by Portugal along with other continents, allowing them to expand. In order to do this, labor was required to mine diamonds and gold, grow crops, build cities and many other labor enforced activities. Slavery was the most economic and socially accepted way to build a labor force, part of slavery was slaves being sold to Europeans to do labor for them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJs-h1YKdlw

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How do modern opinions on slavery differ from those of the era of Discovery?

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How do modern opinions on slavery differ from those of the era of Discovery?

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In the Age of Discovery, slavery paved the way for globalization in Europe. Europeans used slaves for many things which allowed them to grow and become more powerful. The more slaves you owned the more higher up on the social hierarchy and the more wealthy you were seen as. The slave trade was a legal and socially accepted way of living. Slavery was never completely abolished, slavery still continues today around the world. People are forced into agricultural labor and domestic work, human trafficking, and forced, early marriage. women are forced into prostitution and children forced to work in sweatshops. Slavery now is not the same as it used to be but it still exists. Places in the world see slavery as unacceptable but other places do not.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbe7OruLk8I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsYuqffq4GM

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https://www.antislavery.org/slavery-today/modern-slavery/

https://www.pambazuka.org/global-south/atlantic-slave-trade-and-africanization-brazil

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_slave_trade

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_Brazil